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Tommy Carcetti

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37. I'm an NPR baby.

Mon May 3, 2021, 04:12 PM

May 2021

Parents were listening to All Things Considered and Prairie Home Companion before I could even remember.

I can still hum the theme to ATC by heart.

On Sundays, during our family weekly drive to visit our grandparents, we'd usually listen to the reruns of the past night's Prairie Home Companion as well as a couple of BBC shows called My Word and My Music.

I still enjoy listening to NPR. These days I like listening to some of their quiz shows like Wait Wait Don't Tell Me when I run errands on Saturdays. Occasionally when I have a longer drive I'll take in some of their storytelling shows like This American Life.

NPR is far from perfect, but at least it's news in a civilized fashion.

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50 years of NPR!!! Love it or hate it.... when did you start listening to their programs?? [View all] mitch96 May 2021 OP

College in the early 90s TlalocW May 2021 #1

I started soon after its inception EYESORE 9001 May 2021 #2

I appreciate their attempt at being even-handed, without falling into... LAS14 May 2021 #11

I appreciate NPR and should follow it more. appalachiablue May 2021 #3

When I used to drive across rural areas, often late at night, I cheered when I found an NPR station. Hoyt May 2021 #4

1980. Had a roommate from Minnesota who introduced me to A Prairie Home Companion. Shrike47 May 2021 #5

It's a break from constant annoying commercials. lpbk2713 May 2021 #6

Big fan in the 80s Throck May 2021 #7

KPFA (Pacifica radio) was my go-to station fifty years ago but I slowly migrated to KQED (NPR)... Brother Buzz May 2021 #8

If it's "only" fifty years old, I must have started at the very beginning. I still... LAS14 May 2021 #9

Don't remember when, but a long time ago. Used to drive a lot, and if I could find an... TreasonousBastard May 2021 #10

By the mid-80's for me. Buckeye_Democrat May 2021 #12

2000. Year after I moved to the US. mwooldri May 2021 #13

I've been listening to NPR for fifty years. MineralMan May 2021 #14

late 70s for my wife and I. NewHendoLib May 2021 #15

I listened regularly until W when Talk of the Nation devoted a show to cosmetic surgery on Earth Day tenderfoot May 2021 #16

Mid 70s. Diamond_Dog May 2021 #17

As child with my parents. I guess the first time I remember it ColinC May 2021 #18

I started about 50 years ago, stopped about 20 years ago. NNadir May 2021 #19

I used to regularly Tndem615 May 2021 #20

I just read Garrison's new memoir. betsuni May 2021 #30

Wasn't he caught up in a sexual harassment scandal Mad_Machine76 May 2021 #35

Here's what he says about it: betsuni May 2021 #36

Early 80s as an adolescent; listening to Prairie Home Companion. SYFROYH May 2021 #21

Must've been the '90s nuxvomica May 2021 #22

Probably the mid-90s. Xavier Breath May 2021 #23

1984, when it came to Cleveland. n/t Ms. Toad May 2021 #24

Mid 80s when I started driving OTR liberaltrucker May 2021 #25

When I was a kid in the 70's, in a newly blended dysfunctional family, Crunchy Frog May 2021 #26

Early 90's. My mom found it and told me WNYC is their... electric_blue68 May 2021 #27

This message was self-deleted by its author ExTex May 2021 #28

mid 80s when began working in los angeles.. traffic time radio Demovictory9 May 2021 #29

My parents listened to their classical music programs. betsuni May 2021 #31

In October of 2004 I realized they'd jumped the shark - after decades of listening Ron Green May 2021 #32

I have been listening since early 80's. Love their shows. Variety pac. riversedge May 2021 #33

Probably early 2000's Mad_Machine76 May 2021 #34

I'm an NPR baby. Tommy Carcetti May 2021 #37

Started in the early 80s; stopped in the mid 2000s when they swerved right. lagomorph777 May 2021 #38